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Toccata & Fuga is back. Music all over the squares of Rome
Toccata & Fuga, Vacanze romane: the Festival especially designed for tourists makes its return with the same magic formula that has successfully captured the imagination of over 350,000 tourists with its spellbinding music, singing and dancing in the enchanting setting of some of Rome’s most beautiful squares.

Opera music returns to enthral our soirées in Rome. Every Monday from 19th July to 16th August, both Piazza Navona and Piazza di Spagna will be staging the 2010 TOCCATA & FUGA Festival with a programme packed with a rich variety of different events and shows.
On Friday, 30th July in Piazza di Spagna, in cooperation with Promoroma, the Chamber of Commerce’s Special Company, Toccata & Fuga, Roman Holidays is restaging a very special evening concert, which was held at Caracalla in 1990. Over the course of the evening three very different tenors will perform one after another before the illuminated fountain, recapturing the magic of an event which has remained so dear to everyone’s hearts.
Immediately after the “Toccata & Fuga” show on 2nd August, Piazza Navona will provide the unique setting for the Miss Rome Beauty Contest, now in its 50th year. Against the captivating backdrop of the piazza, the lucky winner of this beauty pageant will be selected to compete for the Miss Italy Finals. Piazza di Spagna on 9th August, tango from Argentina, with its very own yet so very different worldwide appeal to our opera
music, will take centre stage for a quarter of an hour. The dance celebration, which has been organised in cooperation with the Embassy of Argentina, will also be an opportunity to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the State of Argentina.
As every year on the night of 14th August, a magnificent fire-work display will light up Rome’s skies to celebrate midsummer. Culture & Music, together with the Miss Rome beauty contest, are all waiting here in the most enchanting settings to make this a quite unforgettable Roman Holiday.

Cast:
Fabio Andreotti Tenor
Olga Adamovich Soprano
Cesidio Iacobone Bass-Baritone
Irene Bottaro Mezzo soprano
Fabio Andreotti, Jean-François Borras, Giordano Lucà (three tenors)

Ballet Company:
Marika Ciccarelli
Cristiana di Bonito,
Giorgia Calenda
Rachele Petrini
Cristiana Riberi
Daniel Abbruzzese
Agostino D’Egidio
Fabio Mastrapasqua
Duilio Ingraffia
Giovanni Scura

Coreographer: Manuel Paruccini

Assistant Coreographer: Paola Bellisari

Piano: Maestro Sergio La Stella

Directed by Domitilla Baldoni